William Pope Anderson

Birth Date

1840-09-10

Death Date

1897-11-20

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Cincinnati, Ohio, civil engineer and soldier. Ohio native. Son of Larz Anderson and Catharine Longworth Anderson. Married to Julia Worthington Anderson on July 21, 1863. Father of Vachel W. Anderson. Resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1850. Civil engineer in Cincinnati in 1860. Served in the 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U. S. A.) as a corporal from April 20, 1861 to August 27, 1861. Served in the in the Department of the Ohio as a captain and assistant adjutant general from 1862, to March 18, 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati Ward 1, p. 37A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati Ward 1, p. 52.
Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Enumeration District 125, pp. 462B-463C.
Official Army Register for 1867, United States Adjutant General's Office, (Washington, D.C.: August 1, 1867), p. 97.
Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, vol. I, 1861-1866 (Akron: The Werner Company, 1893), 108.
Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 68752, State
“William Pope Anderson (1840-1897)," Find A Grave, Memorial 33352225, accessed September 28, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33352225.
KYR-0002-033-0033.

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